It wouldn’t be such a tired cliché if Americans were not insisting on ownership of “football” without the qualification “American”. Nobody makes fun of Australian rules football, Canadian football or Gaelic football, because they don’t claim the generic term football to the exclusion of what the vast majority of the world calls football.
It wouldn’t be such a tired cliché if Americans were not insisting on ownership of “football” without the qualification “American”. Nobody makes fun of Australian rules football, Canadian football or Gaelic football, because they don’t claim the generic term football to the exclusion of what the vast majority of the world calls football.